Quotes from Rick Warren

We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

I believe what Irenaeus said - the glory of God is a human being fully alive.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

While you're waiting, God's working.

God is all powerful, He's in control.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

Our goal is to make God look good in the universe.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry.

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.